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The Tables of Our Enemies

Sep 30, 2015 1:30 pm By Michael Devolin

justin trudeau“…by defining modernity, progress, trade, consumption, and even pleasure as Western assaults on Islam, al-Qaeda left little on the table for themselves.” –Lawrence Wright, from The Looming Tower (al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11)

In their book Kingmakers, Karl E. Meyer and Shareen Blair Brysac refer to a certain William Gifford Palgrave and his warning, back in 1865, that the Wahhabis were “incapable of true internal progress, hostile to commerce, unfavourable to the arts, and even agriculture, and to the highest degree intolerant and aggressive” and represented “a new wellhead to the bitter wars of Islam.” Meyer and Blair Brysac conclude from Palgrave’s remarks that he felt that these same Wahhabis “might seriously threaten the non-Islamic world.” These are the same Wahhabis whom sophists and apologists today blame for the total miscarriage of Islam’s entry into the Western world and its failure to produce any valid example of consistent good. Show me one example of the religion of Islam anywhere in the Western world where there is not also its attendant religious umbrage and its subsequent physical violence. Show me also with such an example where this same religious umbrage and physical violence, in any measure of public acknowledgement by Islam’s many apologists, both foreign and domestic, has ever been depicted as connected directly to the religion of Islam.

Compare the incredible claim—that Wahhabis, a sect founded by Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab (1703–1792), are responsible for derailing and/or interrupting what these sophists and apologists believe should have been Islam’s progression into modernity—with the history of the Abbasid dynasty, which began long before, in 749, and ended in 1258 with the execution of Musta’sim by the Mongols. During its existence, the Abbasid rulers were victims of 13 violent takeovers (as listed in Efraim Karsh’s Islamic Imperialism): five of them “killed by his own soldiers,” one “assassinated,” one “killed by his generals,” one “executed,” three “deposed and blinded,” one “deposed and imprisoned,” one “killed by political rivals.” Compare also their incredible claim with the history of the Ottoman dynasty, whose rulers suffered 15 fervid contestations for leadership positions (as listed in Efraim Karsh’s Islamic Imperialism): one “assassinated,” one “died in captivity,” one “killed contending brothers in internecine strife,” eight “deposed,” one “restored and subsequently deposed,” one “deposed and murdered,” one “murdered by rebellious troops,” one “caliph only, deposed.” Clearly, the religion of Islam was a purveyor of internecine strife and politically charged bloodletting long before the emergence of Abd al-Wahhab. And if ever there was a “golden age” within the Middle Eastern context of Islam, however fugacious, it was in spite of this religion and not because of it. “Even a broken clock tells the correct time twice a day.”

Lawrence Wright opines, “One can ask, at this point, whether 9/11 or some similar tragedy might have happened without bin Laden to steer it. The answer is certainly not.” This is the wrong question. Wright is simply dramatizing for effect, for the sake of his book, to aggrandize bin Laden’s infamy. The question that should be asked is whether another bin Laden type would have made his way to the front of this pack of religious savages and volunteered his leadership for the purpose of committing a “similar tragedy.” The answer resounds in the affirmative. Whether offended by Western imperial conquests, real or imagined, or simply out of hatred of all things and/or peoples calumniated by the Quran, there will always be a radical Muslim somewhere in the world willing to inspire others in the homicidal arts of modern jihad. The mistake Western leaders are making today is to pretend, as Western journalists and multiculturalists have coerced them to pretend, that the radical Muslim is not part and parcel of the common Muslim community and that the radicalization of good Muslims is not a consequence of Islam proper.

Milton Viorst wrote in the Los Angeles Times in 2003: “It is not so much that Muslims are more pious than Westerners. It is that the imperatives of the culture impose limits on the diversity of outlook, whether religious or social. These imperatives suppress the demand for personal identity, leaving believers with little tolerance for the free and open debate necessarily at democracy’s core.” It is not unreasonable, therefore, to suggest that the adherents of Islam, even the most moderate, will continually fail to fully and willingly assimilate democratic norms and customs. These cultural stumbling stones—these Quranic imperatives—are easily perceptible for those in possession of even a superficial knowledge regarding those groups who today advocate on behalf of Islam’s sharia law as they attempt to consolidate the myth that Islam the religion is not something the common patriots of Western democracies should worry ourselves about. These same advocacy groups portray our defense of Christian traditions and Jewish Zionism as “assaults on Islam,” as though Islam—a religion rife with sectarian violence, with a reputation daily disintegrating (if not already there) into notoriety—has moral high ground enough to justify their excoriations of Western societies and their liberal customs.

“No one regards what is before his feet; we all gaze at the stars,” wrote Quintus Ennius. How many times now in recent history have Western politicians and journalists stubbed their toes while dreamily defending Islam as a salubrious faith in spite of the horrors its fundamentalists have unleashed upon humanity, and all their stargazing merely to garner votes and win approval ratings? Karl E. Meyer and Shareen Blair Brysac warn against this “utilitarian view of faith,” pointing out that, “…worldly politicians nowadays tend to treat the other-worldly as useful and pliable partners. Yet over and over again, this attitude has backfired, sometimes fatally.” Meyer and Blair Brysac were talking about America arming bin Laden’s mujahedeen and the Soviet debacle in Afghanistan, but we would do well to consider this prudent counsel as regards the “other-worldly” who presently live amongst us: How many of our civil liberties should we emasculate to please and placate our Muslim citizens, the same citizens whose Quranic tenets demand the sequestration of religious observances and traditions common to Jews and Christians and Hindus but somehow, even though historically embedded in Western democracies, intolerable for Muslims?

Irene Nemirovsky (who died in Auschwitz) got it right, and her wisdom remains a clarion call for ourselves and our posterity: “They’re trying to make us believe we live in the age of the ‘community,’ when the individual must perish so that society may live, and we don’t want to see that it is society that is dying so the tyrants can live.” The virtue of prudence is now portrayed as vice, and we are being forced, by foot and by fathom, against our better judgment, to accept the sort of inverted morality synonymous to crumbled empires past. The destruction of Western democracies, particularly United States and Canada, should it not be averted, should we continue to cater to the demands of psychopathically ambitious politicians, will be like the right-cross that immediately follows the left jab: you don’t see it coming and you don’t know you’ve lost the fight until you’ve regained your senses enough to hear the referee tell you so. Justin Trudeau, leader of the Liberal Party of Canada, just stated publicly (as reported in the Huffington Post) that he “…believes that terrorists should get to keep their Canadian citizenship.” Just when I thought President Obama and his “Iran deal” was the epitome of human incompetence, along comes a fellow Canadian to prove me wrong. How low do we sink into this mire of multiculturalist unconsciousness before we wake to find we have lost everything—all those freedoms and security Western democracies formerly boasted of? We are leaving nothing on the table for ourselves while simultaneously piling the future of our children onto the tables of our enemies.

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Filed Under: Al-Qaeda, Barack Obama, Canada Tagged With: Justin Trudeau, Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab, Wahhabis


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  1. ich says

    Sep 30, 2015 at 1:41 pm

    that sure looks like justin trudeau in the middle !!

    I hope not

    I will be sick

    • ich says

      Sep 30, 2015 at 1:44 pm

      I spoke too soon.
      Should of read it all.

      YUP Justin Trudeau.

      Ughhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

      What an idiot

      • mortimer says

        Sep 30, 2015 at 4:12 pm

        Justin? An idiot? Yes…and a sacrilegious idiot as well.

        Roman Catholic theology forbids worship in a pagan ceremony. That is a mortal sin. Justin just bowed down to an idol in Mecca, thus acknowledging the Black Stone as the center of the earth. Muslims do not realize that the Stone represents the Goddess or Allat.

        • mortimer says

          Sep 30, 2015 at 4:51 pm

          In this photo-op, Justin Trudeau misrepresented himself as a Muslim. A member of Parliament asked if there was any tenet of the RC faith that Justin supported. He has contradicted the RCC but not Islam.

          Is Justin a Muslim or an opportunist?

          And btw, for those who say ‘Muslims and Christians worship the same god’, it is clearly not true. Christians per se worship the ‘Holy Trinity’. The Koran condemns the Trinity. Allah is not Jehovah…nor does the Tetragrammaton appear in the Koran. However, the Koran labels Jews and Christians the ‘clear enemies’ they must fight, murder, subjugate and enslave.

          Justin understands none of that. He’s a moron in matters of religion.

  2. Angemon says

    Sep 30, 2015 at 2:08 pm

    Justin Trudeau, leader of the Liberal Party of Canada, just stated publicly (as reported in the Huffington Post) that he “…believes that terrorists should get to keep their Canadian citizenship.”

    Sound minded Canadians, beware…

    • David says

      Sep 30, 2015 at 3:19 pm

      We are praying that Stephen Harper remains the Prime Minister of Canada.

      • EYESOPEN says

        Sep 30, 2015 at 6:17 pm

        Me too! And I’m not even in Canada.

        • Lia Wissing says

          Oct 1, 2015 at 6:11 am

          Neither am I in Canada, but I’m praying with you!

  3. mortimer says

    Sep 30, 2015 at 3:17 pm

    Devolin wrote: “The question that should be asked is whether another bin Laden type would have made his way to the front of this pack of religious savages.”

    Exactly. The religion of Islam creates the culture of jihad. The culture of jihad creates the jihadists. The jihadists create jihad. Jihad creates violence, chaos, murder, destruction, backwardness, ignorance, illiteracy, poverty and disease.

    There would have been another Bin Laden. If Caliph al Baghdadi is killed, there will be another caliph.

  4. Mark A says

    Sep 30, 2015 at 4:54 pm

    For those unfamiliar with Canadian politics, that’s Liberal Party of Canada leader Justin Trudeau in the masthead photo of this page.

    He’s a known Islamist sympathizer. His most recent comments on that subject are that Islamist terrorists should not be stripped of their Canadian citizenship.

    I would never vote for Justin Trudeau or for the Liberal Party of Canada (one of their federal candidates in the 19 October federal election just had to resign as a candidate because of online comments she made which denied the truth of 9-11 report). His comments about Islamists are just one reason I would never vote for him; there are many other reasons as well.

    Canadians who are still undecided about their vote in the 19 October federal election should be aware of Justin Trudeau’s position on radical Islam.

  5. Infidela says

    Sep 30, 2015 at 6:52 pm

    Milton Viorst is right. I’ve always said that Islam quashes a persons personality and individuality. I believe that a persons individuality is connected to their spirituality.

    Everyone I know says that it’s not the terrorism that’s the main problem but Islamic culture itself. That’s what people fear.

    • sinantara says

      Sep 30, 2015 at 8:50 pm

      That is what I was trying to put the finger on describing my experience of being educated at a liberal college in the US–I called it collectivist thinking. Namely, that one’s identity is defined by belonging to a race of class denoted as ‘victim’ or victimizer. This gives a black privileged professor who actually fled from war torn Sudan and the oppression of other people of color to the safety, security and wellbeing of the US, to identify with those whose forefathers where bought to the US in chains, and act accordingly… with a clear conscience too.

      Now we are told, discrimination is suffered by a collective–race, gender, sexual orientation are collectives. Granted, but if one allows his or her individuality to become stripped off by this identification, individual response to and responsibility for one’s fate is lost. When I was in the US in the nineties blacks were agonizing of the dilemma posed by “getting an education”, which would render one “white”. Students would gossip about so and so being an oreo or an uncle Tom. This I considered to be a sign of a weak individuality, but ok, they were young people in search of an identity. But the academic discourse was strengthening it. Like a black studies program that stressed victimhood–so (my opinion) it was weakening individuality–at a time that a number of black in the US were actually recent entries. Worse, to suggest that individuals are responsible for themselves was considered not only heresy but kind of rightist like saying that the poor deserve to be poor.

      I came to the US thinking to meet a society based upon strong individuality, instead I became submerged into a subculture based upon the Marxian dogma that individuality is shaped by society which consist not of individuals but social classes, with race entered into the equation as a class–and the whole equation simplified to two factors, victimizers (white, western, heterosexual, male) and victims (the rest). This thinking now has entered Islam simply as victim… struggling against their victimhood.

      Therefore terrorism can only be explained as a protest against victimhood, and if Osama was not poor, or even oppressed as an individual, the fact that he was a terrorist is proof that he was poor and oppressed, as a class, that is. If he wasn’t, he would not do such things, wouldn’t he? This view is just an extension of the notion that criminals are victims of society and therefore “every society deserves the criminality is has”, I am quoting a progressive lawyer from New York. So it is not an individual choice to become a criminal. Of course this had to to, again, with the subculture of criminal behavior explained as a consequence of racial oppression/structural violence against minorities..

      In the nineties academic were also busy “deconstructing”, including the notion that western civilization is a alledgedly superior over other cultures. What was disappointing me was the quality of the discourse which were (my opinion again) too much politicized. I understand the dilemma, science should serve the good of humanity. However, in science, what is considered good should not be just a given.

      Now, Marxist class analysis and Islamic division of humanity in (true) believers and unbelievers is strengthening each other. Muslims are the victims of unbelievers, always.

  6. Jeff says

    Sep 30, 2015 at 7:23 pm

    When you wish upon a star just remember one thing, that star is a long way out in the cold of space – which is exactly where wishfully thinking that Islam will reform itself also lies. If civilization waits for the barbarians to wishfully change, it’ll be waiting on wounded knees left to long to prayer and not spent well enough on springing into total war – which is the only kind of dialogue this enemy respects.

  7. Edward says

    Sep 30, 2015 at 7:51 pm

    Justin Trudeau who buddies with the Canadian Muslim’s may loose his head if he is not careful! Little Trudeau is a Roman Catholic. You know water doesn’t mix well with oil…..Islam diehards and Christians, including Catholics don’t either! Muslim don’t like Christians here in Texas…..they say we “are the tainted religious ones”!

    They accept Trudeau now because of his political position only….who knows what they will do later!

    This reminds me of an old joke that heard about the Lone Ranger and Tonto, his faithful companion when I was a youth!

    The Lone Ranger was being chased by a band of mighty mean Indians. Too many that the Lone Ranger started to be concerned. As they continued to be chased towards the mountains, the Lone Ranger looks over his shoulder and asks: “what do we do now Tonto” and “Tonto answers I don’t know about you pale face”

    Actually it was Tonto’s time to get even with the Lone Ranger, so you see the Lone Ranger had been very mean with Tonto by calling him, “TONTO” for many years!

    Tonto is a Spanish word meaning “dumb” or stupid or being “estupido” in some Hispanic cultures. Remember: a snake can be dead but can still bite you.

  8. Jeremiah says

    Sep 30, 2015 at 8:15 pm

    It is always amazing how many people try to justify the enemy of their state, their religion, their values and their freedom. These friends of their enemies are of no useful value after the conflict is over. They only serve to destabilize their state, religion values and freedom. What happened to these traitors once WW2 started? It would be depressing to think they just got away with it.

  9. mortimer says

    Sep 30, 2015 at 8:21 pm

    WHAT’S ON THE TABLE for Muslims? Backwardness is on their table.

    What’s NOT ON THE TABLE for Muslims? Modernity is not on the table.

    The Muslim world closed itself off from progress in 1111 AD.

  10. Buraq says

    Oct 1, 2015 at 12:51 am

    Brilliant article! Read it twice. More of the same, please.

  11. Rikki H says

    Oct 1, 2015 at 2:45 am

    This is becoming typical of our government, just as they won’t deport Sally Anne Jones but keep her here where they can “keep an eye on her”. Instead of settling in for the long haul, why not arrange for them to meet with an “accident” courtesy of MI5. The bitch wants to die, OBLIGE HER kand any others that step up like this) .

    • Angemon says

      Oct 1, 2015 at 8:30 am

      Does she hold any other citizenship?

  12. Rikki H says

    Oct 1, 2015 at 2:49 am

    Sorry that last comment was supposed to be on the UK muslim article. Please delete.

  13. Kathy Shaidle says

    Oct 1, 2015 at 6:15 am

    New campaign in favour of stripping terrorists of their Canadian citizenship, which a fine video by Brian Lilley:

    http://www.therebel.media/kick_them_out

    In contrast, here is PM Harper on national security:
    http://www.therebel.media/harper_on_national_security_unplugged

  14. Cartimandua says

    Oct 1, 2015 at 7:36 pm

    There is another picture of Justin Trudeau sitting in the front row in a mosque, hands correctly held , which has had many Canadians wondering if he did say the Shahada. If he had, would he be Muslim?

    • Angemon says

      Oct 2, 2015 at 2:27 pm

      Cartimandua posted:

      “If he had, would he be Muslim?”

      Yes.

  15. Jerry says

    Oct 2, 2015 at 4:01 am

    In the spirit of religious tolerance, equal to the Muslim one,
    I sincerely wish and pray that all Muslims be so blessed
    as to all go on Hajj to Mecca, simultaneously.

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